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The future is obviously personalized (and very likely gamified) and that means services will "know" you and will act for you. Personalization comes at a price..
by personlurking 15y ago
The future is obviously personalized (and very likely gamified) and that means services will "know" you and will act for you. Personalization comes at a price...and that price is our privacy. It's all about incremental change.
Two relevant points to the bigger picture (IMHO)
- "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
Sun Tzu
- Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy
- jamesbritt 15y agoPersonalization comes at a price...and that price is our privacy. There are degrees of privacy. Gmail can look through all of my mail and stat to figure out what's important and what's not for me. Technically Google can read all my mail, but the presumption is they do not, and need not (aside from programmatic parsing) in order to provide personalization. Even if I give up some degree of privacy to Google via Gmail that should not mean I'm giving up the privacy of my E-mail to the whole world. My mail should still be effectively private. My problem with sites like Facebook is that they begin with some assurances abut privacy and limited access, get people to enter personal info, then gradually change the ground rules. And they're not doing it to offer personalization for the benefit of users, they're doing it for the benefit of their customers, the advertisers.